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r:H. BRIAN COTTEE ommercial

otor There is more than one way of killing a cat, as the Road Haulage Association chairman has demonstrated by the letter...

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This won't stop the tipper pirates

by John Darker BALLAST HAULIERS CRITICAL OF 'WEAK ATTITUDE OF MINISTRY' • What could be interpreted as an attempt by senior...

'Free Enterprise Road Transport' will

• Road Haulage Association members throughout the country are incensed at the decision of the association's national executive...

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'colossus' threat to

8 operators from our political correspondent ; that the "colossus" of London Transmild be unleashed on small private companies...

R HA advises urgent rates review

II In a letter sent to the 18,000 members of the Road Haulage Association on Wednesday the chairman, Mr. Noel R. Wynn (Robert...

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Increased gross weights limits?

• The possibility of increases in the gross weight limits on rigid and articulated vehicles was mentioned in the Commons this...

Better BRS annuities

• An improvement in the joint annuity arrangements in respect of the BRS salaried staff superannuation fund will be introduced...

Knowles back in business

• Knowles Transport, the East Anglian haulage company whose drivers struck on December 30 and were dismissed some 10 days...

Output record

Total production of commercial vehicles in January reached the highest level ever achieved, the Ministry of Technology revealed...

Fewer lorries if Forth toll rises

• The public inquiry into the proposals to increase Forth Road Bridge tolls, which began on Monday in Edinburgh, was told that...

H.g.v. driving licences

• A draft of the Heavy Goods Vehicles (Drivers' Licence& Regulations 1969 was issued by the Minister of Transport on...

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'owards the TML

'he first step towards qualification for a port manager's licence is likely to be the fling of a vehicle supervisor's...

TE wants TM Ls be selective

- he Institute of Road Transport Engineers inding firm by its two principal recomiations on the Transport Manager's ice, the...

TM L training pointless

• In a joint statement this week the RHA and FTA said it was not yet practicable for transport managers to train specifically...

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Now the National Freight Federation

• On Wednesday the name of the former BRS Federation Ltd. was changed to the National Freight Federation (NFC) Ltd. based at...

Excessive weight prosecutions

• The plight of lorry drivers who found difficulty in understanding the new tare and weight regulations governing lorry loads...

Tipp er pirates continued from page 40 drastic measure" and they

anticipate the view that Parliament would be likely to take of this proposal. Parliament, it is argued, would be unlikely to...

Spares reference to Monopolies

• A number of goods used by the road haulage industry have been suggested by the public to Mr. Crosland, President of the Board...

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Container Transport

ta book JP-TO-DATE guide to containerization is ided by a new handbook which has just published by Kelly's Directories Ltd.,...

Mobile hydraulic lifting legs

A HYDRAULICALLY operated system has been developed by W. E. and F. Dobson Ltd., Colwick, Nottingham, for use in the handling of...

'Containervvay' at Manchester

CONTAINERWAY and Roadferry Ltd. are to control their increasing Continental and Scandinavian traffic to and from the North West...

New fork truck works inside containers

CONVEYANCER E3RC is one of the completely new Conveyancer Starline batteryelectric fork lift trucks and is specially designed...

The container industry's own exhibition

As already announced briefly in CM, the first of a series of biennial freight container exhibitions will be staged at Earls...

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PD Wharfage and Transport re-shapes

• Reorganization within the Portslade and Shoreham based company of PD Wharfage and Transport Ltd. is about to be carried a...

Lancs hauliers lose appeal in £3,000 lorry fire action

• Three Appeal Court judges last week dismissed with costs an appeal brought by Storey Brothers and Co. Ltd.. White Cross...

Townsend's new ferry launched

• Free Enterprise IV (5,250 tons), which will be the biggest ship of her kind on the short sea routes from Britain, was...

'Operation Moondrop

• The lack of success of "Operation Moondrop", the Greater London night-delivery scheme which ran from January to June last...

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resh SBG pproach 9 Glasgow

A new offer has been made by the Dttish Bus Group to take over the Glasw Corporation transport undertaking. It 1 be considered...

LTB crews impose anti-hooligan curfew

• Three-hundred London bus drivers and conductors imposed a curfew last week-end in protest against late night rowdyism and...

old crews

For the second successive week, 370 tars and conductors employed by the Icierland District Omnibus Co.. stayed ay from work...

Glasgow's safety bill is £132,550

• Glasgow Corporation officials said last Friday that it will cost £132,550 to fit klaxon warning systems to all 1,200 buses in...

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It's double-deckers after all for Liverpool

by Derek Moses • Orders for 120 double-deck buses designed for one-man operation and valued at a total of £1,181,475, will be...

Public transport case study

• A case study in public transport has been organized jointly by Planning and Transport Research and Computation Co. Ltd....

Inspectors work to rule

• An unofficial work to rule by 2,000 London Transport bus inspectors started last Saturday. The inspectors claim that they are...

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.T threat to independents continued from page 41 This, said

Mr. Fay, was competition not m some newcomer to the industry but from at was probably the biggest passenger nsport operator in...

Absent company inivited to inquiry

• The section 174 and 178 inquiry into the fleet of Grey Motors Ltd. of Bethesda which commenced in September (CM September 20...

Applicant cautioned

• An applicant was cautioned at a public inquiry in Chester last week that he need not answer certain questions if he felt he...

Change of load granted

• Continuation and modification of a B licence was granted to G. Slowe. Manchester, by the North Western LA in Manchester, on...

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Base change application refused

• An application before the Western LA involved a change of base from Scotland to Bristol with a very wide normal user. in...

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Hanson saga continues

Licensing Authority Mr. H. Robson returnd to the Yorkshire traffic area this week to ontinue hearing the application by R....

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Midland Red's new chairman

F. K. Pointon, 48, an executive director of the National Bus Company, has been elected chairman of the Birmingham and Midland...

'Technician Engineer' soon?

• A minor alteration to the Memorandum in the articles of association of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers would give...

Talks on tankers

• According to Mr. J. A. Jones, national transport manager of Air Products Ltd., own-account operators of road tankers will not...

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Adjustable BTC coupling for artics

A spring-cushioned fifth-wheel coupling ith an adjustable mounting has been introuced by the British Trailer Co. Ltd. A hoice...

:layton actuator in production

The R-type spring-brake actuator featured Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd. at the Cornercial Motor Show has now been fully weloped and...

.ow-pressure :ement tanker

A series 400 pneumatic-discharge low-pressure tipping tank has en supplied by R. Murrill Ltd., Weasenham Lane, Wisbech. Cambs....

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Demountable milk-float for Transit chassis/cabs

A Dairymaid light-alloy milk-float body that can be mounted on the vehicle chassis in two hours has been developed by Osborne...

Road and workshop

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (34) by Handyman OThe combined maintenance pattern I now favour can be set out as follows:...

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Mission man

'hen G. Frank Cole addressed the Transrt Managers' Club in London last week was as president of the Birmingham hamber of...

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FTA conference

report 1969 FACE TO FACE WITH MEN FROM THE MINISTRY-STILL MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS by John Darker and Paul Moodie THE...

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The semi-automatic 240 bhp turbocharged Beaver

boosts power, performance&profitability It's going to be one of those years. Everything seeming to work against you making any...

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BMC EA 3•5-TON-GROSS DIESEL VAN

Test by R.D. Cater, AM InstBE SQUARE DEAL" is the advertising an which BMC uses for its EA van, I after a recent test of a...

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Wrong side of the blanket

Janus comments THE ROT may have set in when Mr. Aubrey Jones first placed his embargo on blanket recommendations. The fear of...

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RUN YOUR OWN PRE-TEST SYSTEM FOR LESS THAN OM

by Paul Moody FIGURES published by the Ministry of Transport on January 21 showed that in the first three months compulsory...

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KEEP IT SIMPLE

Make your paperwork purposeful by J. P. B. Sherriff, MITA THE TROUBLE with paperwork in transport is that there is either far...

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HOW MANY VOLTS TO KILL YOU?

Electrical dangers of workshop safety are sometimes overlooked—here an American correspondent writes of his experience in the...

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WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT

WHEEL ALIGNMENT GAUGES A/ICING the correct steering geometry is ally an all-important and relatively complex . cise of the...

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BODY REPAIR TOOLS

REPAIRS to the bodies of typical light vehicles based on car chassis are obviously in a completely different category to...

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CRANES AND HOISTS

WHATEVER else must be done in a garage or workshop. the need to lift heavy and awkward units is ever present. While there are...

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KELLY TRUCK TYRE USERS

Mr Bernard Carroll. Transport Manager/ Ivens, Kelletts & Childs/ Part of WavyLine Group/ started in 19001 One of the oldest...

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We've just improved on a range...

we bet you didn't think could be improved. To keep up with your needs of the moment, we've reorganised the entire range. New...

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OVERHAULING THE RUBERY-OWEN M-SERIES TRAILER SUSPENSION

by R.D. Cater, AMInstBE TO guide workshop staffs on the methods to be adopted for the fitting and removal of rubber-bushed...

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THE TEST MAY GET TOUGHER

by E. James Millen )UT ONE in four goods vehicles failed the istry of Transport test during the first three iths of its...

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COUNTING THE COST OF CONTAIN El REPAIRS

THE SUCCESS of the "container revolution" over the next few years may depend to a major extent on the incidence of damage to...

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Vehicle maintenance ind Operators' Licensing

a few months' time Operators' Licensing L be introduced and the familiar A B and icence system will steadily wither away. is...

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ri The licensing application forms for

operators' licensing (CM February 14) sk for information which will, in the actual ipplication period, apparently be used to...

Q / frequently see reference to the SBS Group in CM,

and! deduce that this is a name now used for the former Carrimore company and its associates, but how many more companies of...

Q / know that there are several organiz

ations which provide testing facilities for product development, both within the motor industry and outside it, including...

CI I have a 5-ton tipper which I propose to use

between my two farms to carry a small bulldozer, tractor, ploughs and so on. It will also carry produce from one farm to...

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to.

Trailer stability Mr Dickson-Simpson's excellent article on the subject of roll-over, highlights many of the design problems...

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Three professional bodies

THE current membership figures of the three professional organizations concerned with traffic and administration in road...

Headlamps (3)

WE NOW COME to the newest of the Regulations dealing with this subject, namely the Road Vehicle (Headlamp) Regulations 1968,...